Iron status is inversely associated with dietary iron intakes in patients with inactive or mildly active inflammatory bowel disease

Table 2 Dietary intakes in patients and controls classified as iron deplete or iron replete ^*

	IBD Patients (n=29)		Controls (n=28)
	Iron deplete (n=21)	Iron replete (n=8)	Iron deplete (n=18)	Iron replete (n=10)	IBD Patients	Controls
	Median	Median	Median	Median	p- value †	p- value †
Total dietary iron (mg/d)	10.0	14.8	11.2	10.3	0.05	0.7
Non-haem iron (mg/d)	9.4	13.9	10.8	9.8	0.045	0.8
Haem iron (mg/d)	0.5	0.8	0.4	0.7	0.13	0.03
MFP (g/d)	120	177	82	143	0.07	0.005
Vitamin C (mg/d)	66	128	83	104	0.017	0.7
Phytate (mg/d)	48	44	93	111	0.7	0.3
BTE (g/d)	731	472	392	440	0.3	0.9
Calcium (mg/d)	927	899	645	615	0.6	0.8
Alcohol - n (%) consumers	10 (48%)	5 (63%)	11 (61%)	9 (90%)
Alcohol - (g/d) consumers	7.8	5.6	10.3	8.9	0.7	0.13
⁽¹⁾ predicted available non-haem iron (mg/d)	1.7	2.4	1.9	1.8	0.013	0.5

Abbreviations: MFP meat,fish and poultry; BTE black tea equivalents; IBD inflammatory bowel disease; (1) Predicted from Rickard et al.[7].
* ‘Iron deplete’ refers to subjects who significantly absorbed iron when tested while ‘iron replete’ refers to those who did not (see Methods section).
† Compares dietary intakes in iron deplete and iron replete for IBD patients or controls.

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